I love them all, I can't choose..I love 'Takes Off' because of the great folk tunes, there are a couple of very nice songs on it. 'Surrealistic Pillow' has something special, you know if you listen to that album, that the band made something great. 'Baxter's' is a very trippy one, it's a speciel one in an another way..'Crown of Creation' is a bit moody, a great mixture of folk&psychedelic tunes, I love it.And 'Volunteers'..that's a strong stuff, you can hear the maturity in the music. On 'Bark' they continued a great job, I love the psychedelic tunes from Grace. Maybe 'Long John Silver' is the only exception..

'No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it' - Gracie

Volunteers, to me it's the group at their peak, it has a lot of the elements that made the previous albums great but also increased musicianship, some excellent longform tracks and some good country rock. There's some really underrated tracks on the album like Hey Frederick and Turn My Life Down.

"I know it's hard to defend an unpopular policy once in a while." - Zappa

Surrealistic pilow. I like that folk-rock-based psychedelia combined with the 3 minute pop sound songs.The album is a perfect indicator of early west coast psychedelia and identifier of the mid to late 60's countrecultural movement-you can feel it while listening to the music. The material is both melodic and integrated in one consistent unity.However there are a couple of weak points. Every song would have been a treasure had they replaced ''D.C.B.A.''and ''How Do You Feel with '' Other Side Of This Life and ''High Flying Bird''(Good point ,redrabid).They should had been more carfeull when they made the song selection.Even ''J.P.P.Mc.Step N. Blues'' is more applicable to the album than ''How Do You Feel .Leaving out '' Go To Her'' was a flaw too.Perhaps they had too much fun during the recording sessions.

redrabid wrote:Surrealistic Pillow might have been their best album, if they hadn't included those three godawful songs: DCBA 25, My Best Friend and, worst of all, How Do You Feel. Those songs made the album almost unlistenable for me. So I made my own copy of that album, replacing these tracks by Go To Her, Other Side and High Flying Bird. Now that makes a very good album. They came so close to perfection, why didn't they use these tunes, that they were playing live so well, on Pillow?The Airplane could make you mad.

Okeedoe and Redrabid, I totally agree with you... If it weren't for those three, Surrealistic Pillow would be my favorite. Those songs are most godawful. Although I must say, I think that Best Friend is worse than How Do You Feel.

I really love Jerry Garcia's guitar on Coming Back to Me. And he also came up with the album title. Honestly, somebody was very seriously pushing the title of "Honorary Seventh Airplane Member"...

I have to say Crown of Creation, it was my first, and a masterpiece it is.After Bathing at Baxters is a second, although there are times i have favoured it, but Crown of Creation just has that...something about it very magical.Surrealistic Pillow is good, but just not as heavy as later albums, not enough Jorma .A mystery for me has always been Volunteers though...just seems too scattered.I even find myself liking Bark and Long John Silver over it sometimes...